Contribution Ban

Democratic State Senator Chap Petersen introduced SB 10 for the 2018 General Assembly session. Here's the language of the bill:

Public service corporations are railroads, gas utilities (not drilling or transmission), electric utilities, and telephone companies (that have landlines). Included are - of course - Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power.

These corporations are regulated by the SCC - whose commissioners are confirmed by the General Assembly. The regulators are controlled by the politicians funded by the regulated corporations, hence the lack of rigorous regulation and the heightened argument to ban contributions.

The candidates below stated that they would vote for a bill in line with SB 10's ban on contributions from public service corporations.